Lisa Yuskavage Quotes

• I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

  Lisa Yuskavage

  People, Feelings, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Art, Important, Polite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Art, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Block, Artist, Worry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Work Out, Way, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Artist, Luck, Unconscious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Art, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Trying, Fingers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Sight, Hands, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Love You, Sometimes, Audience

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Expression, Pieces, Action

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Moving, Hopeful, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Nice, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  New York, People, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  New York, Book, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Way, Aliens, Painting

  Interview with Todd Solondz, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2015.

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